A fluid delivery adapter for use with a wire bar lid. Embodiments can comprise a support base having an aperture defined therein, the aperture being shaped and dimensioned to accept a fluid delivery valve. The support base can be adapted to be disposed on top of the wire bar lid to facilitate providing fluid from a fluid bag supported by the wire bar lid. The fluid delivery adapter can further comprise one or more side portions extending away from the support base, the side portions providing lateral support for the fluid bag.
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1. A fluid delivery system for use with a wire bar lid comprising:
a fluid bag;
a fluid delivery valve; and
an adapter for supporting the fluid bag, the adapter comprising a support base having an aperture defined therein, the aperture being shaped and dimensioned to secure the fluid delivery valve;
the support base being adapted to be disposed on top of the wire bar lid to facilitate providing fluid from a fluid bag supported by the wire bar lid;
said support base constructed and arranged to prevent an animal in a cage from rupturing the fluid bag.
19. A method for delivering a fluid from a fluid bag using a fluid delivery valve for use with a wire bar lid, the method comprising:
providing a fluid bag:
providing a fluid delivery valve;
providing a fluid delivery adapter on a wire bar lid, the fluid delivery adapter comprising;
a support base, having an aperture defined therein, the aperture being shaped and dimensioned to secure the fluid delivery valve;
the support base being adapted to be disposed on top of the wire bar lid and facilitate providing fluid from the fluid bag, the support base being supported by the wire bar lid;
said support base constructed and arranged to prevent an animal in a cage from rupturing the fluid bag;
placing the fluid bag on the support base; and
disposing the fluid delivery valve within the aperture of the adapter.
10. A fluid delivery adapter system for use with a wire bar lid, the system comprising:
a fluid delivery valve comprising
an upper member having a piercing member and a connecting member, said upper member having a fluid channel defined therethrough;
a base having a base fluid channel defined therethrough, wherein said base is designed to be matingly coupled to said upper member;
a stem member designed and dimensioned to be disposed in part within said base fluid channel, said stem member having an actuation portion and having a too portion having a lower surface; and
a sealing member integrally formed with said upper member and disposed in said base fluid channel, said sealing member having a flow aperture and a sealing member bottom surface, said sealing member being designed and dimensioned to facilitate sealing of said flow apertures when said sealing member bottom surface abuts a top surface of said stem member; and
a fluid delivery adapter comprising;
a support base having an aperture defined therein, the aperture being shaped and dimensioned to secure the fluid delivery valve; and
the support base being adapted to be disposed on top of the wire bar lid to facilitate providing fluid from a fluid bag supported by the wire bar lid;
said base constructed and arranged to prevent an animal in a cage from rupturing the fluid bag.
2. The fluid delivery system of
one or more side portions extending away from the support base, the side portions providing lateral support for the fluid bag.
3. The fluid delivery system of
4. The fluid delivery system
one or more protrusions extending downward from the support base, the protrusions being designed and dimensioned to extend into gaps between wire bars of the wire bar lid and facilitate positioning of the fluid delivery adapter on the wire bar lid.
5. The fluid delivery system of
6. The fluid delivery system of
7. The fluid delivery system of
a front portion extending from the support base, the front portion providing lateral support for the fluid bag.
8. The fluid delivery system of
9. The fluid delivery system of
11. The fluid delivery adapter system of
one or more side portions extending away from the support base, the side portions providing lateral support for the fluid bag.
12. The fluid delivery adapter system of
one or more protrusions extending downward from the support base, the protrusions being designed and dimensioned to extend into gaps between wire bars of the wire bar lid and facilitate positioning of the fluid delivery adapter on the wire bar lid.
13. The fluid delivery adapter system of
14. The fluid delivery adapter system of
15. The fluid delivery adapter system of
a front portion extending from the support base, the front portion providing lateral support for the fluid bag.
16. The fluid delivery adapter system of
17. The fluid delivery adapter system of
18. The fluid delivery adapter system of
20. The method of
one or more side portions extending away from the support base, the side portions providing lateral support for the fluid bag.
21. The method of
22. The method of
one or more protrusions extending downward from the support base, the protrusions being designed and dimensioned to extend into gaps between wire bars of the wire bar lid and facilitate positioning of the fluid delivery adapter on the wire bar lid.
23. The method of
24. The method of
25. The method of
a front portion extending from the support base, the front portion providing lateral support for the fluid bag.
26. The method of
27. The method of
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This application is a Continuation-In-Part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/274,619, filed on Oct. 21, 2002 now U.S. Pat. No. 6,941,893, and entitled Fluid Deliver System, currently pending, which claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 60/346,218, filed on Oct. 19, 2001. The present application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 60/510,468, filed Oct. 10, 2003, entitled Fluid Delivery Adapter. The contents of all of these applications are hereby incorporated by reference herein.
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates generally to fluid delivery systems and in particular to a fluid delivery system and method for caging or storage systems for animals.
2. Description of Related Art
A large number of laboratory animals are used every year in experimental research. These animals range in size from mice to non-human primates. To conduct valid and reliable experiments, researchers must be assured that their animals are protected from pathogens and microbial contaminants that will affect test results and conclusions. Proper housing and management of animal facilities are essential to animal well-being, to the quality of research data and teaching or testing programs in which animals are used, and to the health and safety of personnel.
Ordinarily, animals should have access to potable, uncontaminated drinking water or other needed nutrient containing fluids according to their particular requirements. Water quality and the definition of potable water can vary with locality. Periodic monitoring for pH, hardness, and microbial or chemical contamination might be necessary to ensure that water quality is acceptable, particularly for use in studies in which normal components of water in a given locality can influence the results obtained. Water can be treated or purified to minimize or eliminate contamination when protocols require highly purified water. The selection of water treatments should be carefully considered because many forms of water treatment have the potential to cause physiologic alterations, changes in microflora, or effects on experimental results. For example, chlorination of the water supply can be useful for some species but toxic to others.
Because the conditions of housing and husbandry affect animal and occupational health and safety as well as data variability, and effect an animal's well-being, the present invention relates to providing a non-contaminated, replaceable, disposable source of fluid for laboratory animals in a cage level barrier-type cage or integrated cage and rack system to permit optimum environmental conditions and animal comfort.
Animal suppliers around the world have experienced an unprecedented demand for defined pathogen-free animals, and are now committed to the production and accessibility of such animals to researchers. Likewise, laboratory animal cage manufacturers have developed many caging systems that provide techniques and equipment to insure a pathogen free environment. For example, ventilated cage and rack systems are well known in the art. One such ventilated cage and rack system is disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 4,989,545, the contents of which are incorporated herein by reference, assigned to Lab Products, Inc., in which an open rack system including a plurality of shelves, each formed as an air plenum, is provided. A ventilation system is connected to the rack system for ventilating each cage in the rack, and the animals therein, thereby eliminating the need for a cage that may be easily contaminated with pathogens, allergens, unwanted pheromones, or other hazardous fumes. It is known to house rats, for example, for study in such a ventilated cage and rack system.
The increasing need for improvement and technological advancement for efficiently, safely housing and maintaining laboratory animals arises mainly from contemporary interests in creating a pathogen-free laboratory animal environment and through the use of immuno-compromised, immuno-deficient, transgenic and induced mutant (“knockout”) animals. Transgenic technologies, which are rapidly expanding, provide most of the animal populations for modeling molecular biology applications. Transgenic animals account for the continuous success of modeling mice and rats for human diseases, models of disease treatment and prevention and by advances in knowledge concerning developmental genetics. Also, the development of new immuno-deficient models has seen tremendous advances in recent years due to the creation of gene-targeted models using knockout technology. Thus, the desire for an uncontaminated cage environment and the increasing use of immuno-compromised animals (i.e., SCID mice) has greatly increased the need for pathogen free sources of food and water. One of the chief means through which pathogens can be introduced into an otherwise isolated animal caging environment is through the contaminated food or water sources provided to the animal(s).
Accordingly, the need exists to improve and better maintain the health of research animals through improving both specialized caging equipment and the water delivery apparatus for a given cage. Related caging system technologies for water or fluid delivery have certain deficiencies such as risks of contamination, bio-containment requirements, DNA hazardous issues, gene transfer technologies disease induction, allergen exposure in the workplace and animal welfare issues.
Presently, laboratories or other facilities provide fluid to their animals in bottles or other containers that must be removed from the cage, disassembled, cleaned, sterilized, reassembled, and placed back in the cage. Additionally, a large quantity of fluid bottles or containers must be stored by the labs based on the possible future needs of the lab, and/or differing requirements based on the types of animals studied. This massive storage, cleaning and sterilization effort, typically performed on a weekly basis, requires large amounts of time, space and human resources to perform these repetitive, and often tedious tasks. As such, a need exists for an improved system for delivering fluid to laboratory animals living in cage level barrier-type rack and cage systems.
The present invention satisfies this need. Briefly stated, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention, a fluid delivery system for delivering a fluid to an animal caging system for housing an animal is described. The fluid delivery system may comprise a fluid delivery valve assembly adapted to be coupled to a fluid bag holding a fluid. By advantageously using sanitized fluid bags, that may be disposable, the invention may minimize the need for the use of fluid bottles that typically must be removed from cages, cleaned, and sanitized on a frequent basis.
The delivery system may be utilized in a single cage or in multiples cages integrated into ventilated cage and rack systems known in the art. An embodiment of the invention described herein provides for a fluid delivery system for delivering a fluid from a fluid bag to an animal caging system for housing an animal and may comprise a fluid delivery valve assembly, wherein the fluid delivery valve assembly is adapted to be coupled to the fluid bag to facilitate the providing of the fluid to an animal in the caging system. The fluid delivery valve assembly may further comprise an upper member having a piercing member and a connecting member, the upper member having a fluid channel defined therethrough, a base having a flange member and a base fluid channel defined therethrough, wherein the base is designed to be matingly coupled to the upper member. The fluid delivery valve assembly may further comprise a spring element disposed within the base fluid channel and a stem member disposed in part within the base fluid channel, wherein a portion of the spring element abuts the stem member to apply a biasing force.
The invention accordingly comprises the features of construction, combination of elements and arrangements of parts which will be exemplified in the construction here and after set forth, the scope of the invention will be indicated in the claims.
Another embodiment of the invention may provide for a method for delivering fluid to one or more animal cages comprising providing sealed sanitized bags of fluid for use in an animal cage or caging system. The method may further comprise providing bag material to be used in the formation of fluid bags.
Another embodiment includes a fluid delivery adapter that can be placed in the recessed portion of a wire bar lid. The fluid delivery adapter includes an aperture defined in a holder piece of the fluid delivery adapter wherein a valve may be disposed. A fluid bag may be inserted onto the valve piercing portion. By way of this embodiment, cages having wire bar lids and using, by way of example, water bottles, may be retro fitted such that fluid bags may be used to provide water to the animals in the cage.
Still other objects and advantages of the invention will in part be obvious and will in part be apparent from the specification.
Other features and advantages of this invention will become apparent in the following detailed description of exemplary embodiments of this invention with reference to the accompanying drawings.
In the drawing figures, which are merely illustrative, and wherein like reference characters denote similar elements throughout the several views:
Reference is made to
Reference is made to
As shown in
Reference is made to
Cup element 40 is depicted in
Diet delivery system 96, which houses fluid bag receptacle 110 and chow receptacle 111 is shown in
Fluid delivery valve assembly 1 may be used to deliver the contents of fluid bag 60 to an animal in cage assembly 90. Fluid 70 in fluid bag 60 may include water, distilled water, water supplemented with various vitamins, minerals, medications such as antibiotics or anti-fungal agents, and/or other nutrients, or any fluid which is ingestible by a caged animal. Fluid 70 in fluid bag 60 is delivered to an animal in cage assembly 90 in a sterilized or sanitized condition so as to protect any animals in cage assembly 90 from contagion. Fluid bag 60 may be formed in any desirable shape or volume. In a preferred embodiment, fluid bag 60 is formed to fit fluid bag receptacle 110.
Also, it should be clear that fluid bag 60 does not have to consist of a flexible material but that part thereof may be made of a rigid material. In an embodiment of the present invention, fluid bag 60 would consist of one or more layers, which would tear upon insertion of piercing member 11. Alternatively, flexible, stretchable, resilient plastic stickers 501 may be provided which can be adhered to the bag to prevent tearing thereof and to form a seal about the inserted piercing member 11. In addition, as depicted in
In one embodiment providing a method of sterilization for the contents of fluid bag 60, a chemical compound capable of sterilizing the fluid 70, and known in the art, is put inside fluid bag 60 with fluid 70 prior to fluid bag 60 being sealed. Thereafter the compound sterilizes fluid 70 such that it can be delivered to an animal and consumed by that animal without harm. Other methods of sterilization are discussed below.
In an embodiment of the invention, leak preventing member 501 is affixed or formed to upper member 10 and prevents a loss of fluid 70 from fluid bag 60 after puncture by piercing member 11.
As shown in
In one embodiment of the present invention, fluid bag 60 is placed in fluid bag receptacle 110 of animal cage 90. Fluid bag receptacle 110 has a base 112, an inner surface 114 and an outer surface 115. Receptacle base 112 also defines actuation channel 400. When fluid delivery valve assembly 1 is used in conjunction with animal cage 90, stem 31 of trigger assembly 30 extends through cup 40 towards the interior of animal cage 90. In another embodiment, that portion of receptacle base 112 which encircles actuation channel 400 may include one or more locking members 51.
As shown in
Referring now to
The above discussed fluid delivery valve assembly 1, while facilitating the providing of fluid to animals, was found to have some deficiencies when used in conjunction with certain rack and cage system configurations. For example, with reference back to
One reason for the occurrence of this problem in certain circumstances may be that due to the specific arrangement of the stem 31, sealing member 32 and spring element 20 within the fluid channel 14, when the stem 31 is actuated by an animal, the pivot point of upper end 33 of stem 31 about the bottom of spring element 20 tends not to be either predictable or consistent. Consequently, after actuation by an animal, stem 31, in certain circumstances, will shift position in relation to spring element 20, thus not allowing spring element 20 to bias stem 31 back into the desired closed position.
With reference to
Thus, fluid delivery valve assembly 200 is different in structure and arrangement to that of fluid delivery valve assembly 1 in several respects. However, in accordance with the present invention, fluid delivery valve assembly 200 may be used in all embodiments discussed above with reference to fluid delivery valve assembly 1. Accordingly, in any embodiment described herein that describes the use of fluid delivery valve assembly 1 in conjunction with, by way of non-limiting example, fluid bag 60, animal isolation and caging rack system 600, and/or diet delivery system 96, fluid delivery valve assembly 200 may be used as well, in accordance with the invention.
With reference again to
Upper member 210 is formed with generally conical piercing member 211 having sharp point 214 for piercing fluid bag 60 as described above. One or more fluid apertures 215 are defined in a portion of piercing member 210, to facilitate the flow of fluid 70 from bag 60 into a fluid channel 216 defined within the piercing member 210. Upper member 210 is also formed with connecting member 212, having gripping portion 213 encircling a portion thereof.
Base 220, being generally cylindrical in shape, includes top portion 221 and bottom portion 223, which are separated by flange member 226 which encircles base 220 and extends outwardly therefrom. Flange member 226 may be used to facilitate mounting or positioning of fluid delivery valve assembly 200 as is described above with regard to fluid delivery valve assembly 1. Top portion 221 may have an inner surface 223 with gripping portion 213 disposed thereon.
Upper member 210 is designed and dimensioned to be coupled to base 220 with connecting member 212 being inserted into base top portion 221. The coupling may be facilitated by the frictional interaction of gripping portion 213 of upper member 210 with gripping portion 224 of base 220.
Sealing member 260, stem member 240, and spring member 250 are disposed within base fluid channel 230. Stem member 240 has a top portion 241 that may be generally flat, such that flow aperture 265 of sealing member 260 may be advantageously sealed when a portion of bottom surface 262 of sealing member 260 is contacted by top surface 243 of stem member 240. Actuation portion 242 of stem member 240 extends through spring member 250 and through base fluid channel 230. Spring member 250 serves to bias stem member 240 against sealing member 260 to facilitate control of the flow of fluid, as described above with respect to fluid delivery valve assembly 1.
With reference to
Turning to
With reference to
Fluid delivery system 200 is shown having been punctured into fluid bag 60 such that fluid 70 may flow from fluid bag 60 into fluid aperture 215 of upper member 210, and in turn flow into fluid channel 216, through flow aperture 265 of sealing member 260, down to sealing point 246. At this point, with stem member 240 in the vertical (sealed) position, flow of the fluid is stopped.
In an embodiment of the invention, bag 60, once punctured by fluid delivery valve assembly 200, should have its outer wall positioned in the range along surface 235 of top portion 201 of base 220 such that it remains disposed in the portion delimited at its upper bounds by bag retention wall 217 and at its lower bounds by flange top surface 227. In an embodiment of the invention, flow aperture 215 and (in some embodiments) aperture portion 218 may be advantageously positioned about an edge of bag retention wall 217.
Turning now to
Base 220 may be formed with abutment wall 233 disposed in fluid channel 230 such that the maximum travel of stem member 240 is limited such that the flow of fluid 70 is advantageously limited to a desired value. Additionally, stem member 240, base 220, sealing member 250 and spring member 250 may be advantageously designed and dimensioned such that stem member 240 pivots at a consistent and predictable pivot point 236 and will thus not be subject to sticking or jamming in the open position after stem member 240 is released from actuation by the animal. Consequently, the wasting of fluid and the exposure of animals to hypothermia or other problems caused by excessive wetting of the cage and bedding material may be minimized.
Turning to
Referring to
Referring to
An embodiment of the present invention provides a system and method for fluid delivery to one or more animal cages. The system provided has at least two methods of use, one which includes providing sealed sanitized bags of fluid for use in an animal cage or caging system. The provider provides the pre-packaged and uncontaminated fluid (e.g., water, or fluid with nutrients etc., as needed by an animal) for use preferably by delivering sanitized, fluid-filled, bags to a site designated by a user. Alternatively, the provider may locate a sealing apparatus, material for making the fluid bags and fluid supply at a location designated by the user. Thereafter, the provider will assemble, fill and seal the appropriate number of fluid bags for a user at the designated location. In a second method the provider provides a sealing apparatus and the material for making the fluid bags to a user. In this second method the provider may also supply any appropriate fluid to the user at a location designated by the user. The user thereafter assembles, fills and seals the fluid bags for use in the fluid delivery system of the invention as appropriate.
A fluid bag filling and sealing method and system 300, in accordance with an embodiment of the invention, is illustrated in
Contents supply portion 320 serves to add ingredients, via, for example, gravity feed, into the tube of bag material 310. Contents supply portion 320 may include liquid and powder storage containers, and various pumps and other supply means, such that, for example, fluid 70, either with or without any additives as discussed above, may be added and metered out in appropriate quantities as is known in the art. Additionally, contents supply portion 320 may include heating and/or sterilizing equipment such that the contents supplied from contents supply portion 320 are in a generally sterilized condition.
Next, horizontal seal device 350 forms a horizontal seal, either thermally, by adhesives, or by some other art recognized method as would be known to one skilled in the art. The horizontal seal serves to isolate the contents of the tube into separate portions. Next, the bag cutting device cuts the bag material at the horizontal seal to form individual fluid bags 60 containing fluid 70.
Of course, in accordance with the spirit of the invention, the exact steps taken to form the fluid bags 60 may be varied as a matter of application specific design choice. In some embodiments of the invention, steps may be added, left out, or performed in a different order. Additionally, the contents and bag material 310 of fluid bags 60 may be sterilized either before or after the completed bags are formed.
In an embodiment of the invention, and with reference to
Storage containers 370 (or cage bodies 98) may also be supplied with fluid bags 60 at a workstation 382, before placement in an isolation and caging rack system 600. Additionally, storage containers 370 (or cage bodies 98) may be passed through various other sterilizing devices.
With reference to
An embodiment of fluid delivery adapter 700 is illustrated in
In use, when a wire bar lid and fluid delivery adapter 700 are placed on top of an animal cage, the animal can access the valve bottom and obtain fluid from the bag in a manner similar to that discussed above. Side portion 710 extends upward from the sides of fluid delivery adapter 700, and facilitate stabilization of fluid bag 792 such that fluid bag 792 remains in place. In an alternate embodiment, side portion 710 may extend up to a location close to or even with that of the top of front portion 708. In such an embodiment, fluid bag 792 can be held stable. Alternatively, water can be filled into fluid delivery adapter 700 and obtained by an animal via valve 780 without the need for a fluid bag 792 as the fluid delivery adapter 700 with raised side portion 710 can serve as a water reservoir.
A holder piece 714, preferable constructed in a substantially annular shape, may be inserted into aperture 712, to facilitate the retention of valve 780 within fluid delivery adapter 700 via a friction fit. Holder piece 714 is preferably formed of metal, and is preferably friction fit into aperture 712. Alternatively, holder piece 714 could be formed of another material, and retained in aperture 712, as is known by those skilled in the art, as instructed by the present disclosure.
With reference to
With reference to
Accordingly, as has been shown and described, the systems and methods for providing fluid to an animal in a cage via a fluid bag or pouch may be accomplished for users who have pre-existing cages with wire bar lids. Instead of purchasing new cages specifically designed to receive embodiments of the fluid bag and valve system, these users may obtain a fluid delivery adapter 700 and retro-fit the existing wire bar lids to allow then to use a fluid bag and valve fluid delivery system, and thus derive the benefits of such a system as described herein.
Accordingly, one or more of the benefits of the use of a fluid bag, as described above, such as saved cleaning costs, and/or other associated problems with automatic watering systems and water bottles may be overcome by way of the fluid delivery adapter 700.
In addition, with reference to
Thus, while there have been shown and described and pointed out fundamental novel features of the invention as applied to exemplary embodiments thereof, it would be understood that various omissions and substitutions and changes in the form and details of the disclosed invention may be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit of the invention. It is intended that all matter contained in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawings shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense.
It is also to be understood that the following claims are intended to cover all of the generic and specific features of the invention herein described and all statements of the scope of the invention that, as a matter of language, might be said to fall there between.
Gabriel, George S., Campbell, Neil E., Park, Chinsoo, Murray, Dale, Irwin, Lynn, Gianni, Frank
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